Fashion Quotes - Page 73

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy.

Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work, or trade in a mindful, awake fashion. This implies, of course, that many people do not do so. In my experience, that is often the case. So I would definitely be in favor of conscious business; or conscious anything, for that matter.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

I started getting orders from some of the leading stores Fred Segal, Bergdorf Goodman. I realized then that my bags were being noticed by the fashion world.

I am not a fashion freak!

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As cells fight off infection and conquer illness, the spirit, too, has remarkable resilience. It knows when it is harmed, and it knows she the harm is too much to bear. If it deems the injury too great, the spirit cocoons the wound, in the same fashion that the body forms a cyst around infection, until the time comes that it can deal with it.

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.

Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.

I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.

I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals...I would call me more of a monkey.

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

When I first started to do fashion shows I didn't have the budget to hire top models so I would cast women who inspired me, and ask them to walk how they walked. I was doing a mise en scène, which for me was normal. I love for people to see my clothes, but it was more about the attitude of the girls. The revues of the late 19th century/early 20th century were very much a reflection of what was happening in society and politics, and for me that is also the role of the fashion designer.

Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.